Posted by At the Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, Rivers State, and Tincan Seaport in Lagos, agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) seized 31,124,600 pills of tramadol (225 mg) and bottles of codeine-based syrup with a street value of more than N17,932,200,000.00.
According to NDLEA, the government agency requested a thorough joint inspection of the containers on the watch list with the Nigerian Customs Service and other sister security agencies after receiving intelligence about the shipments’ movements from their Indian port of origin. As a result, the containers were seized.
Over the weekend, NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy Femi Babafemi made the announcement.
Two containers at Tincan Port in Lagos were searched and found to contain 350,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup on Thursday, August 29th, and Friday, August 30th, 2024, according to Babafemi’s disclosure of the seizures. The opioid was included in 175,000 bottles throughout the two containers.
According to him, on Thursday, August 29th, at the Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, NDLEA agents seized 447 cartons of tramadol (225mg) comprising 29,840,000 opioid pills and 380,000 bottles of codeine syrup from three containers.
Royal Tapentadol, Carisoprodol (225 mg), and Royal Tramadol Hydrochloride (225 mg) were among the tramadol brands mentioned by Babafemi.